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OpenCitations described

Posted on February 26, 2020 by David Shotton

OpenCitations is an infrastructure organization for open scholarship dedicated to the publication of open bibliographic and citation data. We at OpenCitations are proud to announce the publication, in the first issue of Quantitative Science Studies, of a canonical paper in … Continue reading →

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Mapping JATS to RDF

Posted on December 20, 2012 by David Shotton

JATS, the Journal Article Tag Suite, defines a vocabulary of XML elements and attributes used to describe the content and metadata of journal articles.  In this post, I describe the mapping of JATS to RDF, so that publishers’ XML article … Continue reading →

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‘Likes’ joins the semantic web: cito:likes

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Silvio Peroni

A ‘like’ button is a well-known feature in communication software such as social networking services, Internet forums, news websites and blogs that permits a user to indicate that he/she likes, enjoys or supports certain content.  Internet services that feature ‘like’ … Continue reading →

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Open Citations and Semantic Publishing

Posted on June 18, 2012 by David Shotton

Given the renewed interest among publishers in the Open Citations Corpus, following the decisions by Nature Publishing Group, publisher of Nature, and by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of Science, to open their citation data for … Continue reading →

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Five Stars Ontology

Posted on January 16, 2012 by David Shotton

To accompany today’s publication in D-Lib Magazine of the article The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles – a framework for article evaluation highlighted in the previous post, I have today also published The Five Stars Ontology, a simple ontology … Continue reading →

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Comments on the paper Ceci n’est pas un hamburger

Posted on January 10, 2012 by David Shotton

Very VERY occasionally I read a paper that is so well written, and which addressed the points so accurately and so eloquently, that I rejoice.  The paper by Pettifer et al. entitled Ceci n’est pas un hamburger: modelling and representing … Continue reading →

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The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles

Posted on October 17, 2011 by David Shotton

Many people will be familiar with Tim Berners-Lee’s five stars of linked data, categorising the publication of data on the web in levels of increasing usefulness.  To complement these, I wish to propose the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles, … Continue reading →

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Like a kid with a new train set! Exploring citation networks

Posted on July 3, 2011 by David Shotton

As part of the Open Citations Project, Alex Dutton recently completed a graphing plug-in for the Open Citations web site, that permits users to generate different kinds of graphs of citation networks by querying the Open Citation Corpus for a … Continue reading →

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How to cite data

Posted on June 30, 2011 by David Shotton

As an approach towards developing best practice for data citation, I recently wrote a Data Citation Best Practice Discussion Document that is available on Google Docs, and that I have now slightly revised to Version 2 [1]. In that document, … Continue reading →

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DataCite2RDF – Mapping DataCite Metadata Scheme Terms to ontologies

Posted on June 30, 2011 by David Shotton

The DataCite Metadata Kernel version 2.0 [1] specifies the minimal metadata, and optional metadata, that should accompany a DataCite DOI for the identification of a published data entity. Within the Metadata Kernel document there is an XML mapping of these … Continue reading →

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